Radical thinking and thoughts in the purest sense of the word. What a phenomenal read. #Degrowth

Degrowth is often mistaken for austerity, but its core questions are about choosing what is truly valuable, not the value that is determined by the market. #misconceptions

Trump’s Epic Loss on Tariffs Is Even Worse for Him Than You Think newrepublic.com/article/2068... via @newrepublic.com

Now that the legal situation is clear, it is time for the US to rebuild DEI www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/now-...

Grateful to have collaborated on this work with many great minds --> How to create new, more equal and less violent worlds? Degrowth visions promise such worlds, but a central problem remains how to understand degrowth as it exists now. Here we offer some ways to ground degrowth political theorizing

I'd rather call it #PostGrowth, but whatever you call it, the public has no problem understanding that the economy should work for people and planet, rather than us all working ourselves and trashing the environment for "the economy" www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

“Plankton is neither progressive or conservative; it simply photosynthesises. Aligning blue #degrowth with a blue moral economy invites a shared mission to keep Earth’s lungs breathing. Without a living ocean there’s no #postgrowth, only post-everything.” www.sufficiencywellbeing.com/p/when-suffi...

There is some good news for those that are looking. Degrowth is the way forward. We all need to be working less. We all need to be spending more time with our loved ones & doing our dorky hobbies. The planet is overheating. We all need to slow down & build a culture that encourages/rewards that.

"Just a decade ago, when Trump first sought the presidency, the Republican Party platform included complaints against the Obama administration for “bullying of state and local governments.” First, They Came for Your Elections. Then, Your Guns. newrepublic.com/article/2061... via @newrepublic.com

“As we highlight [in several studies], a growing majority of climate scientists & members of the public support #postgrowth positions & believe that socially unnecessary production & consumption pose a significant threat to our planet & society.” #degrowth www.theglobalcurrents.com/p/the-climat...

How much growth is required to achieve good lives for all? Insights from needs-based analysis J.Hickel "Provisioning decent living standards (DLS) for 8.5 billion people would require only 30% of current global resource and energy use, ..." #degrowth www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

“The buildings & construction sector accounts for roughly 37% of global GHG emissions, as the world continues to add floor area at a pace equivalent to Paris every 5 days.” #PostCapitalism Designing for #Degrowth: Energy Policy & the Architecture of Enough kleinmanenergy.upenn.edu/commentary/b...

"With every year that passes without coordinated action, the scale of the climate crisis deepens. . . . . Such levels of climate breakdown would bring about a ‘semi-dystopian’ world of extreme weather events, crop failure, geopolitical conflict, and mass migration." tribunemag.co.uk/2024/08/clim...

“We have been brainwashed into believing that material possession is the path to happiness. We have been lied to & cheated by just a few with no souls, for whom no amount of power & wealth is enough. It is time for us to say, enough.” #degrowth geoffreydeihl.substack.com/p/the-new-ab...

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

In Springfield, Ohio, people are preparing in advance of a “large deportation” promised by the president. To all appearances, the city is 2 or 3 days from a federal ethnic cleansing, grounded in a hate campaign organized by the vice-president and American Nazis. snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-cle...

Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

It's hard to overstate how ell-organized the portland march that got gassed was... organizers made the crowd promise to be peaceful, said the march would slow in front of the ICE building but not stop, that we would stick to one chant (ICE Out). They did absolutely everything right and got gassed.

This was a peaceful bike ride today in Portland, Oregon. And they ended up tear gassing kids.

I've seen videos of the indiscriminate use of tear gas on a large crowd that was clearly peaceful and filled with Portlanders of all ages, and well off the macadam facility. We banned tear gas for a reason. I join Councilor Green in calling for enforcement of our laws.

Before the 2024 election, I outlined 9 ways Trump had damaged Constitutional democracy, saying the 10th and final barrier was We the People. We’re not a year into democratic backsliding. We’re a year into a plurality of American voters endorsing nearly a decade of backsliding, and opting for more.

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As the world quickly approaches 1.5C, researchers have a call in Nature to rethink the utility of temperature targets – and to potentially replace them with more actionable and precise targets around clean energy:

Ahem. scholarworks.uark.edu/cgi/viewcont...

this is a stunning (if not surprising) violation of both the 1st and 4th Amendments IMO

ok done— a very good, thorough, and concise read from @jessicacalarco.com ! You can read it straight through or do what I call the academic read with a bookmark in the notes. My only question is what a “union of care” would look like in organizing terms, and I think that’s one for us to answer.

Why would an organization that's synonymous with greed and fraud care what happens to its customers after already getting their money

China switches on 1 GW of solar at 4,600 m above sea level #energysky -- via pv magazine global:

‘The graphics chips and data centres on which “arbitrary amounts” are being spent require huge quantities of electricity to power them. Some of this is coming from renewable sources, but much of it involves burning natural gas.’ Donald MacKenzie on AI’s scale. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

BREAKING: At least 25 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, according to medical sources speaking to Al Jazeera. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/yd606g

"In this piece, I provide a brief overview of what people can do, and are doing, to nourish bioregional economies. ..." Nourishing the Bioregional Economy: Essential Resources - resilience www.resilience.org/stories/2026... #degrowth

Protect independent journalists at all costs.

It appears that Stephen Miller is familiar with the argument in Edmund Morgan’s 1975 book “American Slavery American Freedom,” only he has taken exactly the wrong moral lesson from it.

I keep waiting for this, it's a gaping lack in all this talk. They talk about how bad it is that ICE is kidnapping people but don't say a word about rescuing the people who have been kidnapped.

Not to get political, but America is very pretty and has a lot of nice folks making cool things, and I think if we had a president who wasn’t actively trying to murder us, we could have a pretty good time

“It is a time for action, and what matters most is that that action, whatever what we call it, is effective.” Important from @kimkelly.bsky.social this morning. lithub.com/kim-kelly-on...

“These Trump State deaths—& here’s the real difference—they rip off the mask of previous police killings. Today, they don’t even pretend. The empire declares itself, the ruler stands proudly naked, & cops kill as if it’s their right.” - @thomasneuburger.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/neuburge...

Harvard professor Steven Levitsky, who studies democracy backsliding, on Don Lemon's arrest: “This is a new dimension. In democracies, journalists don't get arrested. In authoritarian regimes, journalists get arrested." More in @status.news: www.status.news/p/don-lemon-...

‘ICE Out’: Protest Songs From Bruce Springsteen, My Morning Jacket, NOFX, and Others Bon Iver have released a new charity single to benefit the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota. ✊ www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

It’s always good when the courts recognize what every single other person in the universe understands about the DOE CWG. A Secret Panel to Question Climate Science Was Unlawful, Judge Rules Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/c...

It’d be a shame if people started calling Trump’s “Board of Peace”, “The Axis of Feeble” No one should be calling it #TheAxisOfFeeble that would just be so terrible and make Fox News very sad

I've got a new piece in @thetls.bsky.social on the fraught relationship between taxation and democracy -- based on reading of 2 important and very good new books, by @vanessawilliamson.bsky.social & Ray Madoff

UK paperback of The Price is Wrong available from today, @versobooks.bsky.social

George Washington University, 1970 student protest against the shootings at Kent State and Jackson State.

Calling up your Dem senators and thanking them for doing this is how you encourage them to hold the line, no matter how low your estimation of them is

As governor, I’ll hold utilities accountable and expect those who profit the most to help fix the climate crisis.

1. From lung cancer to climate change, capitalist governments are notoriously slow to recognize and remedy the negative externalities generated by corporate activity. Generative AI is no exception. Large language models are proving a disaster in numerous spheres of public life.